Quote

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

Franz Kafka

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
Aphorist
Claims Adjuster
Diarist
Fabulist
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Praha
FrantiĊĦek Kafka
Kafka
Metamorphosis
Backbone
Brains
Tool
Boss
Tools
Brain
Without

More quotes by Franz Kafka

Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
Image
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
Franz Kafka
Image
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
Franz Kafka
Image
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
Franz Kafka
Image
Now I can look at you in peace I don't eat you any more.
Franz Kafka
Image
I carry the bars within me.
Franz Kafka
Image
Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.
Franz Kafka
Image
Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.
Franz Kafka
Image
there is nothing bad to fear once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak
Franz Kafka
Image
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
Franz Kafka
Image
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
Image
Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
Franz Kafka
Image
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
Franz Kafka
Image
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz Kafka
Image
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.
Franz Kafka
Image
The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.
Franz Kafka
Image
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka
Image
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka
Image
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.
Franz Kafka
Image
Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.
Franz Kafka